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- Andy Grove donates $26 million to alma mater
- Andy Grove donates $26 million to alma materThis is an obvious PR move...to make every think he's a good guy. D'oh! Wait, I thought it was about Billy.Andy Grove donates $26 million to alma materHow odd. I posted to this story earlier saying that it was noble of Andy...
- Tags: Public relations, mater, Andy Grove
- Discussion threads 2005-10-27
- Andy Grove donates $26 million to alma mater
- Andy Grove donates $26 million to alma materAndy Grove donates $26 million to alma materThat was nice of him. All the big wigs are getting into the whole donation thing. Ah, if I only I were so noble to do such. I probably will tho when I...
- Tags: mater, Andy Grove
- Discussion threads 2005-10-27
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- Student Technology Day: your questions to the presenters
- Student Technology Day: your questions to the presentersIt shows where their heart isI didn't receive this email... that's ok. It shows any kind of respect Microsoft may have for professionals who've been designing, developing, building, manufacturing, installing, and bidding on Dry Erase for nearly 50 years. Mainly, my...
- Tags: Student Technology Day
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
- Chrome's JavaScript poses challenge to Silverlight
- Chrome's JavaScript poses challenge to Silverlightis Flash chopped liver?I don't get it... Flash is ubiquitous.. it's on almost every PC out there and has a huge developer base behind it, yet these people are implying Silverlight is THE platform to beat. What does Silverlight have that Flash doesn't (besides a...
- Tags: Scripting languages, Adobe RIA, SWF, Chrome, WebKit RiA, Microsoft Silverlight, JavaScript, WebKit, Microsoft Office, SVG, Adobe Systems Inc., developer, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- 'Is enterprise collaboration an oxymoron?' Be the Voice Podcast with David Spark.
- 'Is enterprise collaboration an oxymoron?' Be the Voice Podcast with David Spark.Perhaps it's more about security....Or at least it clearly needs to be.If you couple your APS to closely, no mater how much work you do to secure your side, it's only as secure as their side.Now if they coupe...
- Tags: podcast, David Spark, enterprise collaboration, APS
- Discussion threads 2008-08-27
- Weekend Gadget Guidance: Get MS Office Ultimate for $59.95
- Got a .edu e-mail address? If you don't, you might want to ring up your alma mater for an alumni account. Why? Because Microsoft is again selling a 91 percent student discount on Office Ultimate 2007. Officially, you're supposed to be...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-08-22
- Will the $12 computer pwn the $100 laptop?
- Will the $12 computer pwn the $100 laptop?Will it pwn the XO? No, and here's why...the XO and what MIT is cooking up here serve two totally different purposes and audiences. The XO is for teaching children how to collaborate, create content, and learn with a computer. MIT's proposal will...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, laptop computer, CherryPal C100, computer, $100 laptop
- Discussion threads 2008-08-05
- Zuora: the future business model?
- I recently caught up with Tien Tzuo, CEO of Zuora, the billing management company that offers Z-Billing, an on-demand service. In his opinion, the business model of the future will be subscription based and this brings challenges of its own. "Pricing is a much more complex...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Billing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Microsoft OOXML opponents won't back down
- Microsoft OOXML opponents won't back downIt lies with the winner?Microsoft didn't win--it did it's usual thing of lying and cheating to steal a result it couldn't earn. E.g.,http://deepakphatak.blogspot.com/2008/05/this-is.htmlNot a standard, yetWith the appeals and the lack of publishing, it's still not a standard.OOXML is largely irrelevant and will "die"ISO...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Office Open XML, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format
- Discussion threads 2008-06-04
- What IBM rice study may teach us about people
- IBM's announcement last week that it will use its World Community Grid to study increased rice production may tell us more about ourselves than about the rice. The study, which you can join here, aims to create better strains of rice by studying how rice genes and...
- Tags: Genome, IBM Corp., Biotechnology, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-19
- A Moore's Law for medical breakthroughs
- In the world of medical research the chief contribution of this decade has been breaching the wall between organic and inorganic chemistry. Computing has made this possible. It can take a vast amount of computing power to create an enzyme from scratch. Thanks to distributed computing and...
- Tags: Rice University, Computing, Moore, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-21
- Red Hat takes the open source security challenge
- One big hole for open source lies in security. It's not a real hole. It's a meta-hole. But we still view it as a hole, so it's a hole. That hole opened up again in Australia this week, where a "loud minority" got personal...
- Tags: Security, Red Hat Inc., Hole, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-21
- MacBook Air Diary-Day 13: Installing 10.5.2
- MacBook Air Diary-Day 13: Installing 10.5.210.5.2 on MBAMine did not take that long to install. however... boot up time increased from 42 sec to 2 min and 20 sec. tried it 4-5 times, no change.did permission repair, that took it down to 1 min 30 sec. next boot up was...
- Tags: Notebooks, Printers, MacBook Air Diary-Day 13, Apple MacBook, MacBook Air, MBA, Apple Macintosh
- Discussion threads 2008-02-13
- Microsoft drops 11 patches, 6 critical
- Microsoft drops 11 patches, 6 criticalConflicting TitleThe headline had me worried that Microsoft wasn't going to release the patches.Did these make it to SP1? Prolly not?Do we install these before or after SP1? And...are there 11 or 17 vulnerabilities...6 + 5 = 11....RE: Microsoft drops 11 patches, 6...
- Tags: Patches, patch management, Microsoft Corp., vulnerability
- Discussion threads 2008-02-12
- Microsoft to relax XP activation rules with SP3
- Microsoft to relax XP activation rules with SP3Too little too lateAnd how long will it last?Microsoft will dial it back until the noise dies down, then back to the same old garbage.A leopard does not change his spots.MS management obviously aren't all that bright......but even they will eventually catch on...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows XP, product key, XP Activation, SP3
- Discussion threads 2007-12-16
- Grids need more medical applications
- In many ways grid computing remains a solution in search of a problem. After enormous hype early in this decade, spurred by success stories like the SETI@Home project, valuable commercial applications have proven few and far between. Much of the problem lies in set-ups....
- Tags: Grid, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-12-14
- Microsoft releases details on Vista activation
- Microsoft releases details on Vista activationDo image backupsIf you snap an image of your base install, you will be able to restore it faster than you would by doing a reinstall, and you won;t have to reactivate.A pirate is less likely to callAlso if calls come in by the thousands...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), piracy, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Vista Activation, DMV, Microsoft Windows Vista, MicroSoft Release, operating system
- Discussion threads 2007-11-14
- Leopard Poll 2: Thumbs up or down?
- Leopard Poll 2: Thumbs up or down?I'm running itI bought a family pack and have had almost no problems with the install. (had a weird issue with having my iPod connected during the install - caused an iTunes kernel panic)Now that it's up and running, I like it.voting actually have...
- Tags: Desktops, Leopard
- Discussion threads 2007-10-29
- Apple says to Archive and Install Leopard
- Apple says to Archive and Install LeopardIs it Application Enhancer, or Tiger's RAID, or DivX? ...I guess the iPhone DOES have full OSX!Right down to the inability to run third party applications![i]The company blamed "third-party ‘enhancement' software[/i]Hmm, I guess the Apple zealots were lying when they said that one of...
- Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, Unsanity, Apple Macintosh, APE 2.0.3, Mac OS X 10.5, Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS X
- Discussion threads 2007-10-29
- OK, I admit it, Leopard has more "Wow!" than Vista ... in theory anyway
- OK, I admit it, Leopard has more "Wow!" than Vista ... in theory anywayre:The ability to run lots of virii, trojans, malware"The ability to run lots of virii, trojans, malware of all sortsThe ability to be easily turned into a SPAM-spewing zombie"I don't buy this at allIf everybody had osx...
- Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Viruses and worms, SECURITY, theory, trojan horse, malware, SPAM-spewing zombie, SPAM-spewing, zombie, Microsoft Windows, Stealth Update, virus, OS X Leopard, Microsoft Windows Vista, Ap
- Discussion threads 2007-10-17
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